I would regret that there is no Day 2 entry but I was quite busy schmoozing. After which I am now on a spend-as-little-as-possible budget until I hit New York.
But it was totally worth it to go out to a wonderful Vietnamese dinner with the director, playwright and dramaturg of Mother Mennie post-reading, and then go out to meet up with the latter two among others with one of the other directing fellows. We hit it off really well and I can see us keeping in touch down the line and seeing where we end up. It's really really nice to talk to someone in the same stage of their career as me.
I have endeared myself to practically the entire hotel with the ability to get them onto the internet. I'm planning a backup career in tech support.
I have also unintentionally connected with all the Bay Area folk, including two professional directors in the area to be in contact with... hurray!
But the real story, the real amazing story, is that I was sitting right in this chair two hours ago, after helping David Goldman's wife get the internet. And I thought to myself hey wait a second, I bet David Goldman knows Seth Rozin, the director of Lebensraum (see 5 directors entry). So I tell David Goldman about looking up Seth Rozin. David says (paraphrased) "I'm supposed to call him anyway, let me go call him and tell him about you". Twenty minutes later he comes downstairs and says "here's his number- his phone battery is about to die so call him now and set up a time to talk to him". That man is incredible. And knows everyone. And I'm going to be talking to Seth Rozin tomorrow.
One final note: there is a job opening for directing Arcadia at Johns Hopkins and a job opening directing Copenhagen at the Stevens Technical Institute in New Jersey. Time to jump on the ball.
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